It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

A GRAVEYARD of giant elephant remains has revealed how the colossal beasts roamed Earth some 300,000 years ago. Scientists ...

It has been suggested that these large fruits, seemingly unsuited to seed dispersal by extant animals, are the products of ...

Natural Trap Cave near Lovell is one of the best Ice Age fossil sites in the world, but its lack of saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths ...

"Sometimes it nice to just kick back and take it slow. Really slow. So what if evolution had the same mindset ...

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

Haast’s eagle, the largest eagle ever known, once ruled New Zealand's skies, preying on giant moa. This formidable predator, ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

The adult frog is just as big, which surprised the researchers. "Both [juvenile and adult] stages being giant is really hard to find in nature today," Chuliver said. But for N. degiustoi ...

Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place ... It is the sheer size of the megatherium that makes it scary. This giant ground sloth lived in South America until about 10,000 years ago and reached ...

“Giant sloths were herbivores ... For a long time, everybody was talking about how megafauna went extinct 11,000 years ago, and humans got to the Americas 13,000 years ago.